When bird flu first appeared, it was thought to be a risk primarily to birds and was felt unlikely to infect people. Infecting birds is bad enough: the current outbreak among chickens has been a major ...

More than 156 million chickens, ducks, turkeys and other fowl have been slaughtered across the United States since the ...

Ohio is currently the leading state of bird flu cases within commercial poultry operations in the U.S., according to the Dayton Daily News. The H5N1 strain of avian flu, among the deadliest forms ...

The CDC says bird flu is a disease caused by avian influenza A viruses (H5N1) that usually spread between birds, not people. It occurs naturally among wild aquatic birds. It's very contagious ...

Thousands of new bird flu cases have emerged in recent months among New York flocks, including in parks and even backyard coops. The spread set off a fresh round of public health alerts among ...

More than 126,800 birds in New York have been affected by the avian flu since 2022, including thousands of new infections uncovered in recent months in New York parks, commercial flocks and ...